Mistaking Quotes

52 quotes by 48 authors

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us. — Swami Vivekananda
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. — Paul Valery
Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of… — Francis Bacon
I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek… — Joseph Jaworski
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and… — Paul Valery
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. — Christopher Morley
Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things… — Elizabeth Bishop
There seems to be a kind of order in the universeâ€¦in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing… — Katherine Anne Porter
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. — Markus Zusak
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish… — James Thurber
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of… — Michael Pollan
Donâ€™t ask me why I obsessively look to rock â€™nâ€™ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess itâ€™s just… — Lester Bangs
A clever enemy would kiss my hand, then stab at my back while I was distracted. (Stryker) A cowardâ€™s action. Truly. Donâ€™t insult either one… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave. — Wilhelm Reich
We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing… — Karen Marie Moning
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Daniel Dennett
He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and who single-handedly annihilated… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

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